Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats' last anguished wail. If he had not comprehended it before, Eisenhower may finally have understood the role they wanted him to play. At week's end he answered them in a soldier's blunt language. He asked to be spared the "acute embarrassment" of any further moves on his behalf. He said what he might have said months ago; "No matter under what terms, conditions or premises a proposal might be couched, I would refuse to accept the nomination." That, finally, ended...
...Iron Curtain. Darryl F. Zanuck's blunt-spoken thriller about the Soviet-Canadian atomic spy ring, with Dana Andrews (TIME...
...Iron Curtain. Darryl F. Zanuck's blunt-spoken thriller about the Soviet-Canadian atomic spy ring, with Dana Andrews as the man who cracked it (TIME...
...Cominform had stated with blunt finality: "There is no place for the [Roman] Catholic church in the Balkans." Hungary was not strictly Balkan, but it was in the Cominform orbit. Last week Hungary's Communist government won a victory over Hungary's Catholicism. In the midst of the fracas, trading punch for punch, was Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, a tough prelate in a tough spot...
...Mindszenty was 56, precise, ascetic. Guests at his dinners got such meager fare that they counted on picking up another meal afterward. His town house on Budapest's Var Hill still showed bomb scars, and he lived in only two rooms of it. But Hungarian peasants understood his blunt speech. He told them to stop reading government newspapers and stop listening to the radio. In a pastoral letter he proclaimed: "To the bitter disgrace of this country, falsehood, deceit and terror were never greater...